Fisheries: Quotas

(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to distribute some of the UK's unused quota for fish with inshore fishermen.


This question was answered on 12th April 2018

The Government allocates quota on an annual basis with a principle to ensure that fishing opportunities are allocated for the benefit of all, taking into account the needs of those within existing Producer Organisations (POs) and the needs of the under 10m fleet.

Since 2012, to help support the under 10m fleet the Government has realigned quota that had neither been fished, leased, gifted nor swapped by POs and was considered unused. This has delivered a 13% increase in quota for the under 10m fleet. In 2016, it generated 677.5 tonnes of additional quota.

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